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Friday, 27 May 2016

Here's our entry into the Starcross Scarecrow Day - June 18th. It's made up of the tails from our Peacocks' Tails' History Trail on St George's Day. It represents Captain Peacock - so we need a nautical hat. We hope that our peacock scarecrow will also be an exhibit on this year's Trail Recycled Art in the Landscape in Teignmouth.

We need
money for room hire and projects, so should we make a charge on the door at
meetings? The constitution allows for a voluntary collection, so this will be
implemented - which upholds our principle of History for All with no compulsory
charges.

A proviso was added to the last
paragraph: “ Dissolution. …all
remaining money and assets… will be donated to Topsham Museum Society provided
there is/are no interested party/parties in Starcross.”

It
was unanimously agreed to formally adopt
the amended constitution.

The Constitution of Starcross History This group shall be called
‘Starcross History’

Aims

To invite
speakers to meetings.

2.To
chronicle the history of Starcross1

3.To chronicle the
histories of Starcross residents.

4. To
catalogue and photograph buildings of interest.

5. To
have an online archive in form of website and/or a blog.

6. To
make audio &/or video &/or written record of the history of Starcross
and its residents.

7.To record the whereabouts of artefacts
associated with Starcross.

8. To
encourage, carry out, or help with; tangible projects which document ,
publicise or enhance historical aspects of Starcross.

9. To
document archaeological sites in the area.

10. To
investigate archaeological sites in the area.

11. To
publicise historical aspects of Starcross

12. To
contact the descendants of Starcross historical figures, to keep them informed
about our relevant research and/or projects.

13. To
visit places which have a connection to Starcross.

14. To
hold social events.

15. To
fundraise to support all these activities

Starcross
will benefit from these activities because a wider and more extensive knowledge
of its history will add to its identity.

Members To join, anyone may add their
name and contact details to the list of members held by the committee.

Starcross
History is open to anyone who supports the aims of the group and
participates in its activities

The group
will not discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, colour, ethnic or
national origin, sexuality, disability, religious or political belief, marital
status or age.

There
will be no membership fee. Instead, there will be collections and raffles at
meetings, and fundraising events. This will provide funds for speakers,
room hire, storage facilities, a website, insurance and administration.

Membership
will cease when members stop volunteering or attending activities, or
when they ask for their name to be deleted from the members’ list.

Committee
Initially,
a committee will be formed from volunteers. The committee will comprise: Chair.
Secretary and Treasurer. Further committee members may be co-opted because they
have particular skills or knowledge. Thereafter. a committee will
be elected at the Annual General Meeting

Committee
meetings will take place as required

The
quorum for committee meetings will be half the number on the committee at the
time

Meetings Starcross History will hold a
meeting every one or two months.

The date,
time and place of the meetings will be advertised

A
financial statement will be presented.

Members
and/or invited speakers can address the meeting.

The
meeting can discuss progress on projects, decide on new projects and plan
future activities.

There
will be no charge to attend, but there will be a collection, and a raffle, and
a charge for refreshments.

Annual
General Meeting Annual
General Meetings will take place with a maximum interval of 15 months

The date,
time and location of the AGM will be published on the internet, and in local
media

Members
must submit items for discussion at least two weeks before the published date
of the meeting

Nominations
for the committee will be taken as soon as the meeting date is published, and
at the meeting

The
quorum for this meeting is set at 5% of the membership, or 6.

Finance The Lloyds Bank Treasurer's
Account will require 2 signatories for all transactions.

All
monies will be counted by 2 members, the amounts verified and recorded. The
monies will be held by the treasurerand
a financial statement presented to the meetings.

Signatories
on the bank account will be a committee member and the treasurer.

Records
of income and expenditure will be maintained by the Treasurer and a financial
statement given to each meeting

An annual
statement of accounts will be presented to the Annual General Meeting

All money
raised Starcross History will be spent solely on the objects laid out in the
constitution

Dissolution

If it is
agreed to dissolve the group all remaining money and other assets, once
outstanding debts have been paid, will be donated to Topsham Museum Society provided there is/are no
interested party/parties in Starcross.

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

MAST - the Marine Archaeology Sea Trust - are running a course in how to be a BAD diver.
May 28th to May 29th

Become a Basic Archaeological Diver!

MAST's Basic Archaeological Diver is
a two day course, a no fuss introduction to the basics of archaeology
underwater with simple recording techniques using little more than a
camera and tape measures. The introduction to the basics will also
include a lecture on the laws governing divers and underwater
archaeology in the UK. Students will hear exciting talks from well known
figures in the underwater archaeology world (please ask for details).

The course is an approved PADI Distinctive Specialty
and appropriate PADI certification and qualification cards are awarded
on completion of the course. The course is also now becoming a Scuba Schools International
(SSI) Specialty. SSI divers will now gain an SSI specialty
certification and MAST instructors are now qualified SSI and PADI
instructors.
After completion they will have the opportunity of a rare guided tour from the licensee of the 1685 Coronation protected wrecksite off Plymouth.
AsUnderwater Archaeology specialists you can become the eyes and ears of our underwater heritage.
For details please contact us at
ginge@thisismast.org. Our next B.A.D. course is May 28-29 in Plymouth. The course costs £198 per person for the two days.
2016 dates for the BAD course in Plymouth are as follows:April 16-17, May 28-29, June 25-26, July 23-24, August 27-28, September 24-25 and October 23-24(A £45 deposit is required. Payment by BACS
is preferred. Please ensure you email MAST to confirm that you have made
your payment. If you prefer to send by cheque, please ensure you
enclose a covering note with your name and contact details.)

This includes classroom tuition, student handbook,
provision of underwater surveying tools for the duration of the course,
three open water dives, PADI PIC registration and card and a reduced
price voucher to dive the Coronation wreck, which will be valid
from one year from the date of the course. It does not include dive
equipment rental, air fills, transportation to and from dive site. All
profits from the course are donated to MAST to contribute to projects
aimed at understanding and conserving our British marine heritage.
If you are a PADI or SSI Instructor and you would like to teach the course, please contact us at either of the emails above.
*We offer a discount to members of the Armed Forces Community. Please speak to us for details.
Please also visit the webpage of the Coronation's wrecksite team at www.coronationwreck.co.uk.

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

This top of a Roman amphora was one of the Show&Tell items which were loaned to Starcross History for its AGM on May 11th.

The late Jim Shapter reported that it was brought up from approximately 20 foot depth (6 metres. 3 fathoms) in the River Exe Estuary, off Cockwood, in 1991; when divers had gone down to inspect Jim's deep water mooring.

In 1994, the following information was kindly provided by Graham Langman of the Archaelogical Field Unit at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter:

"
It is a type called Dressel 20 and is the commonest form found in Roman Britain. It was made in large numbers along the banks of the river Guadalquivir and its tributaries between Seville and Cordoba in the southern Spanish Province of Baetica, and was used to carry the locally-produced olive oil. The span of production of this type covers three centuries and this amphora will date between the mid first century AD and the third century AD.
"

Friday, 13 May 2016

The May bank
holiday in 2014 saw the Starcross Past and Present Festival with displays about
the history of the village, in St Paul’s Church, a talk by David Force and the
commemoration of theformer Starcross
Royal Western Counties Hospital with the siting of a memorial stone. The Devon
limestone - the same type of stone as St Paul’s Church - was picked by the St
Paul’s Church committee, from Stoneycombe quarry, Kingskerswell. Crediton
stonemasons, FJ Stevens and Son were commissioned to carve the 1 tonne stone.

At the
festival, names and contact details were taken of people who thought that
Starcross should have its own history group. Many appeals were made for someone
to start such a group.

I volunteered -
in 2015 - and Barbara Rich agreed to
be the treasurer. Barbara is much more than treasurer. She organises the
meetings - does all the teas and coffees unless someone else helps; runs the
raffle and supports my wacky ideas. Without Barbara, we couldn’t have a group
at all.

We have never
offered our wonderful speakers, artists and helpers any money for expenses or
fees. Everyone has given their time, expertise and materials freely. I’m going
to list all that’s happened since we started Starcross History, but first of
all, I would like to say a big THANKYOU to everyone I’ve roped in, and thankyou
to the Starcross Newsletter, the Dawlish Gazette, the notice boards and the
Facebook pages for all the free publicity. Our website
http://starcrosshistory.blogspot.co.ukhas had 25,000 hits, so thankyou Google; for our free website.

First Meet - Tuesday March 10th2015
in the brand new Starcross Pavilion on the sportsfield. Our first speaker was Alison Miles, who encouraged us to
complete a square for the Starcross Wall
Hanging - a tangible piece of local history, which celebrates the country life
of Starcross.Please take a look for
yourselves - it’s at the front of the main Church here.

2015 was the 150th anniversary of
William Booth's founding of the Salvation Army. Our 2nd speaker
of the evening; Peter Hinchliffe's
topic was The early battles: Police v
Salvation Army. Peter, himself
an ex-copper, astounded us with incredible tales of what is now seen as the
nineteenth-century police persecution of the Salvation Army. Peter told us how;
in Exeter, Plymouth, Honiton, Crediton, Torquay and further afield, salvationalists
were arrested and imprisoned, and even killed. An opposing army of thugs; The
Skeleton Army had tacit approval to disrupt and attack the salvationalists.

Wednesday May 13th 2015.

Dr JanetCutler
gave a wickedly humorous illustrated talk on Brunel in the West Country. Her slideshow demonstrated her great determination to get the
best shots. The one of the SS Great Britain's last time afloat - as she lumbered
up the Avon into Bristol, showed how decrepit the old boat was. She’d been
beached in The Falklands and used as a warehouse, then scuttled and left to
rot. Frenzied crowds jostled for a position to see the fragile wreck go under
the suspension bridge 127 years after she’d left Bristol. Janet Cutler stayed
put amongst the melee, and got the perfect shot she wanted. We were able to
see the ravages of an 8,000 mile journey on an already dangerously
deteriorated hulk.
There were slides of the broadgauge loco, The North Star, and stories of the chaos when broad gauge met narrow gauge... or any gauge met a gauge of a different size.

More slides
focussed on the beauty of Brunel's structures, such as Bristol Temple Meads, and his many ornate stone bridges. Brunel was an architect of some skill. The Clifton suspension bridge wasn't
actually built by Brunel. It was built after he died, as a memorial to the great man.

The second
speaker was Luci Coles, who explained
the passions, for both sculpture and the environment, behind Trail
Recycled Art in the Landscape in
Teignmouth, in which Starcross History had just entered their idea for
their Swan of the Exe sculpture. Luci
talked about the involvement of schools, community groups and businesses in the
project. She spoke of the ability which art has to get a message across to
everyone - but not everyone will go into an art gallery, so TrailArt, in tourist spots on Teignmouth Den
and in Shaldon Botanic Gardens, has a universal impact. Its message is
about pollution, especially plasticpollution.

June 2015 Teignbridge
District Council gave us an old, bright blue, plastic boat for the sculpture. Brenda
Barkwill suggested using white plastic milkbottles to make swan feathers and
I found an orange swan-beak-coloured paddle on Teignmouth back beach. Starcross
artist Vicky Jocher agreed to create
our Swan of the Exe sculpture.

July 8th 2015

Gordon White kindly lent his remarkable catalogue of
research and photographs to Adam Golding who used them to
present Starcross
Stories. Time allowed for
only a fraction of Gordon’s comprehensive collection. We learned about rows of Starcross and Powderham cottages which burned down or were summarilydemolished by Brunel, to make way for his railway. Back in the nineteenth century, it was
suggested that the railway would be difficult to maintain if it were to be
built along the shoreline...
The Royal Western Counties Hospital was first of all run privately;in converted cottages, and had only a handful of inmates. The capable woman who ran it was sackedbecause... she was a woman. New rules of new management stipulated that the person in charge had to
be a man...Smugglers met in the CourtenayArms.

2 carts fully loaded with stolengoods were discovered by the constabulary in a lean-to shed; right
beside the thieves' cottage.

Vicky Jochershowed us her maquette of The Swan of the Exe sculpture, and explained her Swan of the Exeworkshops presented at Starcross
Primary School. The older children
had been discussing pollution in the oceans, in a forum only the previous week.
All the children were enthused to actively protest about pollution of the planet when they helped
to create our exhibit for Trail. Then they made
feathers out of the plastic milkbottles they had brought to school and they attached
their feathers to a piece of trawler net which had been found drifting off
Teignmouth. They looked forward to seeing the completed sculpture on Plot 12,
near the Teignmouth Pier.
The Starcross History group then walked to the former village sweetshop, Myrtle
Cottage, to see the nearly-completed sculpture.

July 2015 Vicky Jocher installed The Swan of
the Exe by Teignmouth pier

September 9th
2015Dr Sally Ayres gave a talk on Rear
Admiral Francis Godolphin Bondwho retired to Starcross in 1801. He sailed
to Tahiti in 1791 with his uncle,
who was The Bounty's Captain William Bligh.
The rare Tahitian artefacts Bond collected are displayed in the Royal
Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.

Bligh and his nephew jointly owned the house that is now Exeter’s Ship Inn.

The institution was ‘for
promoting the general diffusion of Science, Literature and Art, and for
illustrating the Natural and Civil History of the county of Devon and the city
of Exeter’. The site of the Devon and Exeter Institution was originally
owned by the Courtenay family of Powderham. Today’s chairman of the institution
lives in Starcross.

Bond’s main interest on his Pacific voyages was to procure plants;
many of which are in our gardens today. Breadfruit had been hailed as the plant to save the world
from starvation, but the varieties
of unpalatable breadfruit which Bond gathered became cheap
fodder for our slaves in the plantations.

One of Rear Admiral Godolphin Bond's sons was Rev. Edward
Copleston Bond who lived in the vicarage at Starcross from 1865.

Bond died in 1880 and was buried in the cemetery of Exeter's Holy
Trinity Church. This graveyard was removed by the City Council in l987-88 and
the remains were reinterred in Exeter Higher Cemetery. All that remains today of
the Bond family tomb is a simple gravestone.

Holy
Trinity Church was
deconsecrated in 1969, and stood empty and derelict for 20 years. The Royal
Navy rescued this lovely Victorian building, which is now The White
Ensign Club.

Saturday September 12th2015
from 9am until 4pm.Steampunk Hat Workshopand Steampunk Bring&Buy in St Paul's
Church. This was part of the Devon Historic Churches Day - another opportunity to get the kidsinvolved, and some
publicity for us.

Saturday October 24th

The team from St Paul’s Church swung into
action to provide teas and coffees and their sumptuous cakes, and to man the
stalls at our good old-fashioned Jumble Sale. Every pew was
filled with jumble, and the raffle table had lots of prizes. Thankyou to everyone
who donated items and gave of their time. The leftovers were kindly dealt with
by the team at the Westbank Charity Shop.

Wednesday November 11th

Attendance was up at
our November meet, because our popular retired GP, Dr Ian Goodrick was the speaker. Some of us could also remember the 'good old days' (?)
when a doctor would 'tell it to you like it was'. We were able to see a
selection of photographs which included the build of the present Starcross
surgery.
Ian's tragic Victorian tale of a Starcross woman who died from a post-natal
infection could never happen again in the village, because modern obstetric
practice has improved exponentially. The infection within this unfortunate new
mother was not discovered until it was too late. New mothers today are
looked after and monitored carefully for any signs of problems; not simply left
to enjoy their new baby in the hope that all will be well.
However, this isn't true of the rest of the world. Liz Moore was at the meeting. She lives in Starcross, and is the founder of Call the Midwife Tanzania, which is a charity working with the Maasai. A Maasai woman achieves
status when she has children. The more children she has, the higher her status.
But one Maasai woman in seven would die in childbirth. In the villages where
Liz's charity works, this horrific statistic has been reduced to almost
zero.

Valerie Forrester also addressed the
meeting. Like Starcross History, Valerie is interested in oral records, but her purpose is for The Dawlish and Teignmouth Area
Talking Newspaper., which is for blind and partially sighted
people. The publication,Hear and Now, is recorded
weekly. There aren't yet any subscribers in Starcross, so if you know
anyone who would benefit from this, or if you would like to help with this
worthwhile project, please get in touch.

January 13th2016

The January meet munched its way through the
generous free samples as they listened to Andrew
Cadbury’s delicious talk about his family and the development of the
chocolate industry.

The reason that so many UK businesses were
started by Quakers was that universities would not accept Quakers. Quakers were
unable to study for professions such as law and medicine. Bright youngsters
from Quaker families had no alternative but to go into business. They founded
Barclays Bank, Lloyds Bank, Huntley and Palmers Biscuits, Bryant and May
matches, and Clark’s shoes. The Fry, Rowntree, Terry and Cadbury families
became confectioners. Andrew showed us a book by his niece Deborah; Chocolate
Wars.

In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer’s shop
in Bull St, Birmingham. With pestle and mortar, he produced drinking chocolate,
which he saw as healthy, and much preferable to alcoholic drinks. As his
chocolate product range expanded to include confectionary, Cadbury’s
manufacturing moved to larger factories.

The
Cadbury family believed that their loyal workforce deserved to enjoy a quality
lifestyle. In 1879, they built a village and a factory near rural Selly Oak,
where there was a trout stream called The Bourn. The “Bournville” workers’ houses had back-to-back gardens,
separated by rows of fruit trees. Facilities included sports pitches and swimming
pools. There were works outings and summer camps for the children. In the
Victorian era remembered for industrial cruelty and deprivation, the Cadbury
name became just as famed for its social benefits and advances in working
conditions, as it was famed for its chocolate.

The recipe for Cadbury’s milk chocolate
remains a secret. Cadbury’s chocolate today is manufactured worldwide, and the
recipe varies in the different countries.

Cadbury is now owned by the US giant,
Mondelez. The corners of the milk chocolate bars are rounded. There’s a new
product which combines cheese’nchocolate - Cadbury
Philadelphia
- .

January 2016

Adrian Wood contacted me about the plight of the iconic Railway Carriage
Camping Site on Dawlish Warren, which will close when the summer season ends.

January 2016

To have The Stover Canal
Trust speaker at a meeting would cost £40 fee plus expenses but theyoffered to meet the Starcross History Group
in a pub for a chat about their work.

January 2016

Melissa Muldoon
started
an after school club in Starcross Primary School, to make peacocks’ tails’ to
jazz-up the proposed history trail on St George’s Day in April. Peacocks’
Tails’ Trail was Pauline Allen’s idea,
and she helped at all the workshops.

February 2016

My application to Historic England to get; the Railway Carriage Camping
Site on Dawlish Warren; listed was refused but Historic England would like to
help. They advised me to contact Teignbridge District Council.

March 9th 2016

Valerie
Forrester payed
tribute to her late husband Richard
Forrester. It was Richard, the keen industrial historian, who saved our
Brunel Pumping House - which had been scheduled for demolition.

The meeting heard about life in the tower where the Forresters
opened their Atmospheric Railway Museum. Richard’s clever design, for his
ride-on model of an atmospheric railway, used ordinary household vacuum
cleaners to create a vacuum in a pipe. The pipe ran from one end of the
building to the other. His flat-bed truck ‘train’ was propelled along by
atmospheric pressure. Visitors were keen to ride the train for the whole length
of the building. That exciting working model is remembered fondly by the
thousands of visitors to the Forresters’ Atmospheric Railway Museum in the
Brunel Pumping House.

In response to the many visitors who enquired where they might get
a cup of tea, the Forresters opened a café in the tower, and served cream teas.
Valerie concluded, “ I like to think that we brought something more to
Starcross; that we made it worth a visit”.

Keen railway historian Adrian Wood kindly led the discussion on
the Campaign to save Railway Carriage Camping at Dawlish Warren

The site will close after August. The Great Western Railway Staff
Association have managed to continue to operate the camping carriages for 23
years after the privatisation of the railways. All but one of the carriages now
needs replacing. Could the trend for holidays in the UK in quirky accommodation
and glamping be exploited;? Perhaps one of the local holiday camps might wish
to add railway carriage camping to their site? Or perhaps they might purchase
the original site to provide another aspect to their existing campsite? Rail
Holiday in Cornwall provide holidays in specialised glammed-up railway
carriages. They wish us well with our campaign, and have offered their
advice when we need it.

Historic England have explained that portable railway carriages
are not within their remit, so they had to refuse my application to list the site. (although they are keen to help
if they can) This rules out Heritage Lottery and other similar funding.
Historic England advised me to contact our district council. Teignbridge
Planning referred me to their local plan, which will be the consideration for
any change of use. Maureen Pearce is their Team Leader, Design and
Heritage. She tells of a precedent for a listed railway carriage; in Shirwell,
North Devon. This carriage, built for Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1897, is now
a skittle alley.

Members promised to approach Dawlish Warren holiday camps to see
if they would be interested to continue the tradition of railway carriage
camping.

St George's Day Saturday
April 23rd 12:00 noon

Profits from
the bring and Buy went to St Paul's Church. The TEDDY ToMBoLA was run by
the Starcross Westbank Charity shop
Peacocks' tails remind us of the Starcross adventurer and inventor, Captain George
Peacock.

The trail
quiz&clue sheets were sold for 50p by local organisations, to raise money
for themselves.

·Trail quiz and
clue sheet attached

Information
about the location was displayed by each tail with a relevant rubber stamp, - 8
specially made by Melissa Muldoon.

The trophy for the Best Peacocks’ Tail was presented by Andrew
Cadbury to 3-year-old Olivia Genders who received it on behalf of Starcross
Pre-school. All the pre-school children’s hand-prints were incorporated into a
spectacular tail.

Every child who collected all the stamps was awarded a certificate
and a peacock-related prize.

·3 Trail
Certificates attached

Children still
talk about Tony Miller’s secret, at the old Starcross police house, at the
North end of the village.

I have answered email enquiries from people further afield. Via my Facebook page; Starcross News; I have successfully appealed for information
about a local farmhouse and the staff at Starcross hospital.

2 Projects to do

1.Re-create the Stairs
Cross

Starcross got its
name because of the stone cross at the top of a flight of stairs. The cross was
put up by the Bishop of Sherborne after 1146. It was destroyed by Henry V111th.
Was it broken and pushed into the Exe? Was it pushed whole into the Exe. An
archaeologist tells me that the science of geophys is not yet advanced enough
to survey in saturated ground - but might be one day.

Peter Dare, retired Master Stonemason at Exeter
Cathedral, is willing to advise with our project to re-create a stone cross.

Funding to train
youngsters to carve a stone cross could be available from National Lotteries
Young Roots.

Starcross Parish Council will provide a site
for a cross, or a stairs and cross, if we can further verify the research to
prove that it existed. Someone I helped with her familyresearch has tried, without success, to
locate the information at Sherborne Abbey.

2.Oral History

In April, I was
welcomed to the studio of Dawlish and Teignmouth Talking Newspaper. The team
there will record stories from Starcross, and also come out to Starcross to
record. The soundbytes could be put on the Starcross History website. When we
have enough Starcross
Stories, they will make a CD which we can sell.

Pictures to animate
the sound would make the CD more saleable. We could use old and newphotographs, drawings and animations.

Under threat

The Peacock-Cookson
Memorial

The pink marble
memorial in St Paul’s churchyard is in need of restoration. The team at St
Paul’s are exploring ways to fund this.

Scheduled Events

JUMBLE SALE Saturday
June 4th 2016 from 2:00pm in St Paul’s Church

In conclusion, I feel
that it’s important to involve everyone; even children, in local history. That’s
why we have no joining fee. That’s why we don’t make a compulsory charge at the
door at the meetings. Our events are aimed at children as well as grown-ups. Local
history gives IDENTITY to a place, and its people.

Starcross History

Mosaics and Horses. Wednesday March 14th 7:30pm in St Paul's Church

The next meet of Starcross History will be on Wednesday March 14th at 7:30pm in St Paul's. No entry fee and no membership fee. PLEASE BRING A RAFFLE PRIZE. Alma Harding and Joanne Bickel will lead a Mosaic Workshop; to make mosaics to mark a Starcross History Trail. Where else could the trail go? What else could it commemorate? Add tesserae to our mosaics. Or design your own - you'll need a base for your mosaic (a piece of wood or something else), some cut tiles and some waterproof tile cement. We also invite you to make Horses from Rubbish, for our 2018 entry into the Teignmouth TRAIL.Phone Starcross 890650 to find out more and book your table.This meet will also be the AGM. Copies of our constitution and the chair's report will be available. Might there be volunteers for committee rôles?

Crowdfunding: £10,000 for St Paul's Church Bells

We have been told that the hangings that hold the bells in place are now in need of replacing. We do not have the choice of doing nothing as they will only deteriorate more over time.

We would like to commemorate the end of the First World War with the Ringing out for Peace event that will be a part of the Battle's Over: A Nation's Tribute on 11th November 2018. If we have no bells, we won't be able to!

We are a small congregation in St. Paul's and we will struggle to raise this sort of money just amongst ourselves. However, we feel that the Church is an important part of the wider community and the bells are a very tangible sign of that. Please help us to return the sound of well tuned bells back to our community.

We sell our enamel badges for £5

Buy online, at one of our events, in the Westbank charity shop in Starcross, or in Crafters, Queen St, Dawlish

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